Privacy and Security - Health Informatics News - Health Informatics Forum2019-05-25T14:56:05Zhttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/news/feed/category/Privacy+and+SecurityBlackberry to strengthen their cybersecurity with acquisition of Cylancehttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/news/blackberry-to-strengthen-their-cybersecurity-with-acquisition-of-2018-11-21T12:50:37.000Z2018-11-21T12:50:37.000ZAdminhttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/members/Admin<div><div dir="ltr"><strong><a href="https://www.cylance.com/en-us/company/about-us/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/136227440?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" />Cylance</a></strong> offers products and services that predict and prevent cybersecurity attacks, as opposed to merely detecting the enactment of such threats, and describes itself as having "redefined endpoint security," working with clients worldwide including health related organisations such as Phoenix Children's Hospital and Apria Healthcare for example.</div>
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<div>A&#160;communications platform called <a href="https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-spark-platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spark</a>&#160;has been developed by&#160;BlackBerry which it calls an EoT (Enterprise of Things) platform for "Ultra-secure hyperconnectivity," and is designed for use by original equipment manufacturers, enterprises and individuals with care taken to address the issue of security compliance in certain industries and boasting "making military-grade security easy and intuitive to use."</div>
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A recent Blackberry <a href="https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/company/newsroom/press-releases/2018/blackberry-acquisition-press-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a><strong>&#160;</strong>announced that Cylance, who produce endpoint protection through artificial intelligence-based malware prevention as well as threat hunting, automated detection and response, and expert security services, will be acquired wholly by BlackBerry.&#160;</div>
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<div>Three specific plans for the company are described in the press release namely: Wide spread next-generation machine learning within their portfolio, integrated solutions to intelligently protect endpoints, both fixed and mobile and embeddable artificial intelligence for Spark. &#160;</div>
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<div>John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry is quoted in this press release as saying: “Cylance’s leadership in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity will immediately complement our entire portfolio, UEM and QNX in particular. We are very excited to onboard their team and leverage our newly combined expertise,” and &#160;“We believe adding Cylance’s capabilities to our trusted advantages in privacy, secure mobility, and embedded systems will make BlackBerry Spark indispensable to realizing the Enterprise of Things.” &#160;<br />
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While Stuart McClure, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Cylance is quoted as adding: “Our highly skilled cybersecurity workforce and market leadership in next-generation endpoint solutions will be a perfect fit within BlackBerry where our customers, teams and technologies will gain immediate benefits from BlackBerry’s global reach,” and “We are eager to leverage BlackBerry’s mobility and security strengths to adapt our advanced AI technology to deliver a single platform.”</div>
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<div>Healthcare organisations can currently choose Blackberry mobile solutions relating to, for example, clinical collaboration, hospital and staff coordination, mobile healthcare (including the capture of health information with peripheral wearables and biometric monitors) and homecare (including access to clinical data). Moving forwards additional investment in security may positively impact Blackberry's contribution to the healthcare industry where already&#160;7 of 13 Fortune 500 healthcare providers are powered by BlackBerry software according to their <a href="https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/customers/industries/healthcare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">healthcare</a>&#160;pages.&#160;</div>
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</div>The Market for Medical Records Datahttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/news/the-market-for-medical-records-data2016-01-28T11:09:06.000Z2016-01-28T11:09:06.000ZChris Patonhttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/members/chrispaton<div><p>What we do with Electronic Medical Records data is a hot topic around the world. The UK had its own problems when it tried to launch “Care.Data” (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26259101">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26259101</a>) to extract data from family doctors (General Practitioners) which have still not been resolved.</p>
<p>Adam Tanner from Scientific American has written an interesting article on how the market for medical records data has been growing and how patient privacy may be at risk if the data is not properly anonymised.</p>
<p>You can read the article here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-make-money-off-your-medical-records/">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-make-money-off-your-medical-records/</a></p>
</div>How do we ensure confidentiality when healthcare "Big Data" is linked from multiple sourceshttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/news/how-do-we-ensure-confidentiality-when-healthcare-big-data-is-link2014-09-04T14:10:10.000Z2014-09-04T14:10:10.000ZChris Patonhttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/members/chrispaton<div><p>The UK government is currently working on a project called <a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/tsd/care-data/" target="_blank">Care.Data</a>&#160;that will extract healthcare data from doctor's offices and link it with data from hospitals and other government services. When this project was first announced there was a lot of negative press around issues of opting out of the data collection, informed consent and selling the data to commercial organisations.</p>
<p>Here's an interesting series of videos from <a href="http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/talks/videos/ensuring-confidentiality-not-infringed-linking-data" target="_blank">The Nuffield Trust</a>&#160;showing some of the leaders in this area talking about how we can ensure confidentiality when we start linking together patient-level data:</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/99829569">Ensuring confidentiality is not infringed by linking data</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nuffieldtrust">Nuffield Trust</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/99829568">Liam Smeeth: Increasing the availability of person level data</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nuffieldtrust">Nuffield Trust</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/99829567">Bethan George: Linking data across the WELC pioneer project</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nuffieldtrust">Nuffield Trust</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
</div>Chinese Hackers Steal 4.5 Million Patients' Data from US Hospitalshttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/news/chinese-hackers-steal-4-5-million-patients-data-from-us-hospitals2014-08-18T20:26:25.000Z2014-08-18T20:26:25.000ZChris Patonhttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/members/chrispaton<div><p><a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140818/NEWS/308189946?AllowView=VDl3UXk1T3hDL3lCbkJiYkY0M3hlMHVvaDBVZER1QT0=&amp;utm_source=link-20140818-NEWS-308189946&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=hits-alert" target="_blank">Modern Healthcare is reporting</a>&#160;that Chinese hackers have stolen a large number of non-medical records from a US hospital chain:</p>
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<p><span>An outside group of hackers targeted&#160;</span><a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/articles?tagID=725">Community Health Systems'</a><span>computer network and stole 4.5 million individuals' non-medical patient data, the company disclosed Monday in a regulatory filing.</span><br />
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<span>The Franklin, Tenn.-based chain, which says it has 206 hospitals in 29 states, said a&#160;</span><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312514312504/d776541d8k.htm">group originating in China</a><span>&#160;used highly sophisticated malware and technology in the criminal attack. It believes the hackers were searching for intellectual property on medical devices and other equipment, but instead stole data on patients who sought care from its physician practices.&#160;</span><br />
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<span>The data included names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers—all of which are protected under the&#160;</span><a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/articles?tagID=313">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act</a><span>. However, the data did not include financial or medical information, Community said.</span></p>
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</div>Dangers of AI in Medicine?https://healthinformaticsforum.com/news/dangers-of-ai-in-medicine2014-08-18T10:50:29.000Z2014-08-18T10:50:29.000ZChris Patonhttps://healthinformaticsforum.com/members/chrispaton<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<p>Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.</p>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statuses/495759307346952192">August 3, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<p>At the suggestion of Elon Musk, I've just finished reading "<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Final-Invention-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0312622376" target="_blank">Our Final Invention</a>" by James Barrett and am due to attend a talk by Nick Bostrom (author of&#160;<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/0199678111" target="_blank">Superintelligence</a>) in a few weeks time at Oxford.</p>
<p>The books are quite scary and seem to be well thought through. Computers are certainly getting better quickly and the world is getting increasingly reliant on IT; so I agree that the risk is very real. But what does this mean for medicine? One danger I see in the near future is for "narrowly" intelligent AI malware to cause problems with health IT systems. Many IT systems in healthcare are relatively insecure (due to out-of-date computer systems, USB drives and web browsers) and cope with the problems of existing viruses and malware constantly. When these systems encounter AI malware, the problems could escalate quickly.</p>
<p>What do you think are the dangers of AI in medicine?</p>
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